Bucks point guard Michael Carter-Williams has been told by the team that he will not be traded prior to Thursday’s deadline, Marc J. Spears of The Vertical on Yahoo Sports tweets. The 24-year-old, who is said to be “undeniably gettable,” was also told the same thing by the Sixers last season prior to being shipped to Milwaukee, Spears notes, so he’s likely to take any assurances with a grain of salt.

Cavs superstar LeBron James believes he and his teammates need to tune out outside distractions and criticism and focus on the task at hand if the team is to make strides during the second half of the season, Marla Ridenour of The Akron Beacon Journal writes. “There’s so much talk about what we should be, we should do this, we shouldn’t do that. The only thing that matters is what we come together and talk about and how we prepare every single night and our coaching staff putting us in position to win,” James told Ridenour.

The Pistons are excited by the athleticism and versatility that Harris will provide them, David Mayo of MLive relays.

Orlando likely could have netted a better return if it had waited to deal Harris until this summer, Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post opines in his examination of the Harris/Jennings/Ilyasova trade. The scribe notes that the trade was a big win for the Pistons, who now possess a solid core of players who are 25 years of age or younger to build around, and though Orlando did receive the veterans it craved, unless this deal was the first in a series of trades, it failed to improve the Magic as a team, Bontemps concludes.

3 thoughts on “Central Notes: Augustin, Carter-Williams, Harris”

Trade MCW please. All this team needs is an outside scoring PG and a defensive minded big man and let the young kids take it from there. If I was Milwaukee I would trade for Taj Gibson and then draft Jamal Murray with an eye for contention next year.

How much would it take to get collison? Would Dinwiddie, who could be a nice project and a 2nd rounder be enough? Or would Pistons need to include a 1st rounder and they should not do that. He is only a back up pg so he should be that much